Nevada's tea party secretary of state rejects Indian tribes' request for reservation polling sites
..."Cegavske, a tea-party Republican who served in the Nevada state House and state Senate for 16 years before winning the secretary of state’s post in 2014, is a member of the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, and served as its Nevada state representative in 2012. She favors strict voter ID laws and opposes same-day voter registration and voting.
American Indians nationwide gained the right to vote with passage of the Snyder Act in 1924. But ever since then, finding ways to suppress their vote or maintain low turnouts have been common. Healy has a theory about why in Nevada this year:
“It’s not unknown if you look at data at all that ‘those Indians, they vote the ‘wrong way’… She would get, I’m sure, excoriated by her Republican colleagues if she would make it easier for a constituency that leans Democratic to vote.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/27/1587516/-Nevada-s-tea-party-secretary-of-state-rejects-Indian-tribes-request-for-reservation-polling-sites
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